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How to spell weather

hear itweath·er/'wɛðər/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The state of the atmosphere at a given time.

In a sentence: The weather is sunny and perfect for playing outside.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as wether or wheather.

Sounds like, but is not: whether. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: weathered, weathering, withstand, endure, survive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Originally, 'weather' was a noun from Old English 'weder', meaning 'air' or 'storm'. Over time, English speakers started using it as a verb to mean 'to endure a storm', and later more generally, 'to endure or survive difficulties'.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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